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From the picture, it’s not at all apparent what the cookies are shaped like. I see a snowman and a tree, but the rest of them are indeterminate blobs.

So it would make perfect sense that these ARE assorted “holiday” cookies– some generic winter symbols, some Christmas trees and Santas, some menorahs and dreidels, maybe a few pagan pentacles for Yule. If that’s what the cartoonist intended, you’re entirely and offensively wrong.

I personally prefer “Christmas Season” to the generic “Holidays”, but face it, there are many holidays during this particular season – I don’t have the energy to be offended by the debate anymore.

As for the cartoon itself, I just think they chose “Holiday cookies” as a setup for the last panel in which she points out it is a “holiday”, i.e. a holiday from eating well or behaving or whatever keeps you from downing 2 dozen cookies of any kind on any given day.

In the last panel, “holiday” sounds better than “Christmas” would, and I feel sure that that dictated the choice of words. Anyway, “holiday cookies” did not seem weird to me when I read the strip; I wouldn’t have noticed the usage if you hadn’t pointed it out. It isn’t like the always jarring “holiday tree.”

Powers, to those who believe there’s a War Against Christmas, the ACLU is the epitome of anti-Christian sentiment. Hence the hyperbole of my using the phrase.

My personal belief is that respecting everybody’s holiday means the greeters at Wal-Mart should say “happy holiday” AND that Christmas trees and Christmas cookies should be called Christmas trees and Christmas cookies.

Well, everyone knows the ACLU is an extremist liberal organization. Liberals are trying to cozy up to the religious establishment, so of course they’re going to pander to Christians (actual extremists like Fred Phelps are not welcome, because there’s no political value to pander to people like that).

As for the term “holidays” instead of “Christmas,” that seems to be pretty much the invention of other Christians. I would NEVER call it “the Holidays.” That’s offensive. “Christmas cookies” or “Hannukah” cookies would be fine, but the cartoonist should be reprimanded for saying “Holiday cookies.”

Curmudgeon–I loathe the simliar, but purely internet “*shrug*,” as far as affectations go.

I didn’t bat an eye at the “holiday.” My ma’s family is Ukrainian (her parents were born there), so not only do we celebrate America Christmas, but we do Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 7. And then for good measure, we often celebrate the whole “Week of Christmas/New Years” up until the 14th. Mostly just en excuse for my family to have parties. Anyway, I grew up hearing “holidays” instead of “Christmas” so it’s never sounded strange to my ear.

Francois: What’s offensive about “the Holidays”? What’s wrong with “Holiday cookies”, since as pointed out, the term existed long before the “War on Christmas”? What makes you think the ACLU are “extremist liberals”?